Wishing for good weather

- Why are you looking up the sky?
- I'm trying to work out if it's going to rain
- But you don't have neither hay nor wheat
- Yes, but I have not got an umbrella either.
FRANCISZEK KOSTRZEWSKI
(1826 - 1911)

Born in Warsaw. Painter, illustrator, drawing artist and caricaturist. Studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Art at Feliks Piwarski. For over 50 years contributed to Warsaw magazines among others: Tygodnik Ilustroway, Kłosy, Biesiada Literacka, Mucha, Kolce. Very good at portraying warsaw street characters, was also a reporter of current social and cultural events. Considered by many as the first real Polish caricaturist.

Exhibitions at the Museum of Caricature:

1986
Anniversaries '86
M. Andriolli, J. Bickels, B. Bocianowski, D. Chodowiecki, F. Kostrzewski (collective exhibition)